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r;»ItK THE ÜBORdIA MSGISLAI 1 tii.
A writer, subscribing himself “'JVoun,’’ hi
given the public a review of this pr t ;-j.<■
through the columns of the Macon Tdegiupii.
He is believed to boa very prominent citizen
of Georgia, at present holding a high mi . .o
appointment under tl.o Confederate (iovjT:-
luenfr. We confess our utter n-tonishiin-nt, in
reading this elaliorate end lengthy production
We ate umnzed that such a tissue of fcitd;« ten
sophisms should issue from hueli a sourc V. -
venture the assertion, that a mote “l-.ine it 1
impotent," a more illogical and self stultify
ing scrubland) of an argument never emanated
l orn the addled brain of a fourth rate villa:-
pettifogger—an aigument, which .stand-; forth,
peeihss and alone, in its supreme absurdity and
sublime nonsense.
Our space will not admit of the extended
and thorough analysis of this precious rpoeiiuen
of sprciul pleading, which wo should like to
give it, and, therefore, we shall only attempt,
nt present, a brief notice of its leading argu
ment —the corner stone of “Tr nip’s” edifice.
Tiie argument, or rather position of Mr.
Stephens, against which this writer directs the
artlilery of bis logic, i» thus stated ; “The j rivi
legem f the writ of habeas corpus, nr A In- mi.-
pended by Congress, but in doing so, no man
shall be deprived of tiis liberty, v.iUn.ut dm
procti sos law, nor slid! nny bo subj' .(l to
seizure, except on probable came, supported
by oath or affirmation.” “Ibis av- on.,nt
—oontiuups “ J roup”— is based upon tin? two
following provisionsof the Constitution : First,
“No person shall bo deprived of life, liberty
or property without due process of law.''
Second, “The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers ami effects,
against unreasonable searches ands marcs,
shall not be violated, 'and no warrants t;h ;ii
issue, lint upon probable cause, supported by
nnoath or ullirmation, and particularly deccii
bing the place to bo searched, and the persons
or things to be seized.’ ’
instead of meeting the impregnable position
of Mr. Stephens, and the unanswerable argu
ments with which he h is sustained it, “Troup”
undertaken to mislead, mystify and confound
bis readers, with one ot the most barefaced mid
reckless perversions of the language oi Ihe i.«•
stitution, which we remember evei hueun t
with, in the records of partiz.m debale, Jlc
nays ;
Now let us test the truth an 1 correct ness of
the argument, by the doctrines ami practices,
both of Hie Conledorate and State Governments
- Gov. Brown, Mr. Stephons, and the re ! oi
mankind. Both Governments have re cried
to ini pressmen t of property tor the use,
Hint is they have authorized their oliWrs to
seize (he property of the citizen lor the u-e ot
the Government. In no case has. it been done
either “by duo process of law” or “upon the
oath or atiirnmt.ou” of any pci ea.and yet Un
el mixes of the Constitution relied upon by Mr.
Stephens, refei in every instance to property
ns well as persons.”
I'iu'HO clauses of tbo Constitution have tor
»ge» been pail and parcel of flic British Con
stitution, incorporated in England s Declara
tions of Rights, the monuments of her freedom, j
from whence they were borrowed l>y our lath
evs, nad inserted in the Constitution of the old
Union, ii! that of every State, and finally in
our own. For iiges they have been receiving
the judicial iutoiprei-ttion ot the brightest
luminaries of the law, nl both bemisphcies,
and, yet, never till now did it ever cuter into
the head of any judge, lawyer or statesman, j
or was it ever hinted, even by any writer on
Constitutional law, that these clauses in the
bill of rights had any reference or application
to the impressment, of private property for pub
lic use. The grand discovery was reserved for
•‘•Troup,” the great judicial light of the leili
century and of these Confederate States.
The merest tyro in the Isw has not, h reto
fore, failed to perceive that these clauses had
exclusive retercnco to criminal, to penal pro
ceedings against life, liberty and property,
which they wore intended to protect against
the encroachments of arbitrary power, in tbo
assumed exercise of criminal jurisdiction. '1 ire
very terms of the law indicate its meaning be-
Vi v».-,l a doubt. “No person shall bo deprived
of Hit liberty or property without due pro
cess ot iu w -” Forfeiture lor some p-miil
offense is,
will “Troup,” hlmsC' l ; undertake to say that
deprivation of life for ally other cause, is re
ferred to? Again, “No warrant? shall issue,
but upon probable cause, s ipported by tut ea.ii
or affirmation, ami particularly describing the
place to be searched, and the persons or things
to be seized.” This is the language of crimi
nal law —warrants supported by oath or affirm
ation, searching of places, and seizure of persons
and property. The most illiterate magistrate
in the country will not fail to recognize at once
in these familiar terms tho ordinary and np
propriate technicalities of criminal proceed- j
ings. What use have we for legal process, tor
the machinery ot courts, (or oaths. iitlinuutions.
or warrants, in the impressment of property
“Troup” has failed to enlighten his readers oil
ibis point.
But this argument of “Troup” has the com
mon vice of false argmn-uts, that it proves
too much. In assuming that impressments
•re within the scope t { these claust# of the '
it concedes shat military and all
other impressments of private property for
publio use, are palpable infringements of the j
Constitution. :•> *"** “«* |
jng with due pvpccss of law, oaths, afimmuUm. ;
and warrant#, in these cases Inc a my !
take refuge in the suspension of the habeas cor
pus, to justify aggression upon the liberty ox i
the citizen, but there is no suo.i saving Qa
in the ease of impressments. We should li e
to see him attempt to extricate himself from
the meshes of this dilemma. If he can do so.
he will exhibit more than the slipperiness and
tortuosity of the eel.
The New York Argus, in speaking of the
course Liucoln is pursuing, says to hold in sub
jection. by military power, an intelligent peo
ple. and compel them to receive their political
rights at the dictation of the conqueror, has
proved impossible in all modern history.
The Federal* console themselves with their
defeat at Plymouth by claiming the Confeder
ftic: ’oft fifteen hundred men. •
•ril!' HGVEURIU.YI'Y OK THE STATES.
1 he action of ti;e late Congress has been jnst
> the cause of much censure, particularly die
us pension of the writ of Habeas Corpus. This
•" ••ecu regarded in England, and has ever been
gar-j in this country, till recently, as (ho great
nnwark of per- nal liberty, dames 11. of
h'siard, ambitious of absolute power, insisted
- -t I'ai i: r.ient should give him a standing
iy, repeal the Test Act, and repeal also the
i ■ l .erpus Act. His Parliament, though
,int- obsequious, resolved to do neither, lie
- •!, and is o:-s‘. i.im ii’s crown. Vet we, j
•' '- 'n:; i.i our instil.urions, do in the nine
teenth century what England refused to do
ver one hundred and eighty years ago.
V> it cur object in this war, which lias al
ly cv-t livers of blood and hundreds of I
millions of tkillir, It is to maintain the ab- !
-and c. i'.pSete sovereignty of the States. 1
; ri- have ;pi ling up, hut they grow
- oi and are li: .eparabiy connected with
Let us go into a brief examination of the
;.e i ical history of the United States, to see
■vhcUier or no .ve are right in maintaining the
entire sovereignty of the States from any and
-■.it opposition. <‘c.me fiom what quarter it may.
Union; our revolutionary war, there were
ihirlec>i colonies, all owing allegiance to Great
JjiTtiiin, but were all separate, distinct, and in
dependent of one another. The assertion—
-11 I the attempt to enforce it on the part of
Great Britain—of a right to tax :;s without our
cr.rment, and the denld of This right cn our
!> ut, led to the seven years’ struggle by which
we cr b.hlhhed our independence.
Ihe Articles of Confederation, which were
adopted by (he States, that they might the bet
t. ;■ neineve the greal end in view, did not
change tlx; character of the States, but by the
express words of thoto articles, each State ro
tatned ils freedom, sovereignty, and independ-
V>'iion Great Uri.ain ' recognized us she
1,1 , do it as a nation or as a people, but
inch state for ifsnlf.
[ A ft.vr j-e-uV experience clearly demonetrat
e > *-••• itabeci.'ity of (he Articles of Oonfedera-
U ->n. 'j be 1. iv;-; of Gongrer-s amounted t-r no-
U.• - 1 ■ ■' ir-. •* Hi ::t commendations, for the
wm-t of a Fcdoi.il Executive, and a Federal
•'■ !. :y to enforce Legislation, in fine,
■ x'i -,-r.t s in'coutradh.tinaUon to individ-
To remedy this great evil, to have a
■• v •.mm- nt of more vigor, a government that
would, through Hie magistrate, extend the
laws directly to the people, the Constitution
was iid(-pied in 1787.
'i he i ainstitution did not, in the least, change
the individual character of the States It on
'.V S-ive vitality where there was none before.
The whole instrument, (ivm beginning to end,
•-hew.- that it was a compact between the
Si „us«, by which a general agent was created
with certain powers for tiie good of each.—
The (•-.• -te .t.J resolutions of 1798-9:), and the |
lepoif rii.aejn by Mr. Madison, are conclusive
in favor ol the entire sovereignty of the States,
l!', then, the States are sovereign, they have
; tho right, at anytime, with or without cause,
I to Had this doctrine been admitted,
%
• ■■ v wait misery, what wretched
would have been spared both North and
S' nth. li w.isyh'iiied by our enemy who seek
w.Ui innumerable modes the overthrow of
our in.-fitutions, tho despoliation of our prop
erly, and our own enslavement.
Little would we have thought a few months
ago, that uvn under the cover of “great zeal
for their country,” would try to accomplish
! what ihe enemy are striving so hard to do. li
j our rulers that be. o i mere suspicion, can
1 euiifinc one as long as they please, what be
! conics of the boasted ai tributes of State eovS-
eignty? If the administration exercises the
powers which Congress has attouiptml to be
stow < n it. it can be viewed in no other light,
than as a despotic administration. No poweis
should bo given to any ono or body of men,
shut tic posses in the least on the sovereignty
lof the States. In preserving them intact, lies
our safety. The Confederate Government, or
either department thereof, should exercise no
power except that which is expressly dele
gated, or that which is necessary to carry out
a delegated power.
Constitutional liberty, State sovereignty,
should be considered as dear as life itself, and
i we should defend it as well ag mist misguided
j friend.-', as in<pla< able foes. Stand by princi
i pie;. Too much confidence in men and too
| little regard for principle are the sure roads
i to slavery.
V.u;k tiiChance. — Two years ago Senator
Bright, of In liana, was expelled from the Yan-
Ike. "Vuate by a vote not far from unanimous,
j tor s imply writing an ordinary letter of intrq
j duel-ion to a person desiring to make the ac
quaintance .;' "resident Davis. Now such inen
Ins Long of Ohio, 'Wood of Now York, Harris
| oi Maryland, and White of Ohio, declare in
i op.m session their conviction that Lincoln may
: bury in bloody grave- our bravo and gallant
j soldiers, until resistance shall prove uuavail
i ing ; may d:ivo the balance of our people info
I banishment, ctmlis ate their estates, and send
■ th>m. man women and children, all agio?, eon
i ditions am! sexes, strangers in a strange land,
i hou. eless and homeless wanderers ; but he can
I n-ver make them a subject race. Another
speaker invokes tho curse of God Almighty
j upon tho war, and invokes the people to make
| , s,i C > by a c ompromise of conflicting interests,
p-inelples and opinions. This is gratifying.
Rea-on is returning, national insanity is de
caying. and thinking men begin to see that by
attempting to exercise an arbitrary control over
people of the booth, the North has lost its
Uonstituti.-nal form of government, and in*
! cuirel a debt that can never be paid. A vote
cannot bo obtained ia tho Yankee Congress
; now to expel a member for giving expression
Ito his feelings. Mark the change. ' iis omi
' nous.
An mxa Habeas Corpus Case. —The Con
st-Itndona'.if? < f this (Thursday) morning says:
A writ of Habeas Corpus sued out by John
Byrne, K>q., of this city, claiming exemption
' from conscription from field service on the
j oh a of being over the age required for con*
| scriptioa. returnable before Judge W. T. Gould.
was argued lvfere the judge yesterday morn
| ing and testimony heard. The judge decided
adverse to the applicant, and remanded him
back to the custody of the enrolling officer.
: We understand, however, that the applicant’s
: attorney, 11. W. Hilliard,-Esq., will certiorari
•.he case to the Superior Court of Richmond
' county.
t tie \ ankees seem to have one hope of stop
ping the Confederate rams, now louse in the
North Carolina waters, and that is placed in the
Tacony, a vessel of tho “double-ender'Mlass.
and was built and equipped at Phildaeljfiia.—
She is a staunch craft and carries ten guns,
lour each broadside and heavy rifled pivot gun
j fore and aft Asa paddlowheel steamer she
belongs to the third class, and is nine hundred j
and seveatv-four tons tonnage. She is com- !
manded by Lt W. F. Truxton, a grandson of
i Com. Truxton,
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 11, 1864.
THE TRAN VICTORIES.
The recent disasters to the Federal arms,
; west of the Mississippi, furnish an impressive
i commentary on the folly of Lincoln's scheme
jof Southern subjugation. Such lessons can
hardly fail to have some effect, even on the
mind of that besotted tyrant, bloated though
i be bo with the pride and arrogance of fancied
j power and security. His dreams of conquest
| must be rudely disturbed by the thundeis of
j Confederate victories reaching his ear, from the
j blood-stained fields of the far West. The pain
ful suspicion must flash athwart his fanatical
brain, that the grand vision of extended em
pire towards the setting sun. which has so long
dazzled his view, i.- about to turn out to be but
“the unsubstantial fabric of a dream.”
j Lincoln has fondly imagined that his armies
j of brutal mercenaries would conquer and de
* taeh from the rc-be! Confederacy one Stab after
another, not'd r. i tyho should be ioft to raise
thes'andaid es revolt. He thought that Ar
kansas and Louisiana had already fallen be
neath his sway, aud made haste to establish
In-' bogus governments over them. But iu the
moment of imagined triumph, when the le
gions of Banks and Steele were about to wipe
out the last vestiges of rebellion, and sweep on.
in their victorious and resistless career, to the
banks of the Rio Grande, be Cuds them sud
denly scattered to the winds, whipped, routed
and driven in dismay from the soli, of which
they vainly thought they were masters, lie
buds that, these rebel States will not stay con
quered—teat the job of subjugation is no
sooner accomplished, than it lias to be begun
anew.
\» lien Vicksburg fell and the enemy obtained
undisputed control of the Mississippi, our .pros
per ts in the West seemed gloomy, indeed. Cut
ell from the rest of the Confederacy, and left to
their own apparently feeble and inadequate
resources, it scemerl ns if the States West of the
Mississippi must fall an easy prey to the over
whelming forces of the enemy. Lincoln felt
that they were entirely within his grasp, and
that he could easily reduce them to unquestion
ing r übnri sion. But fortunately for our cause,
President Davis had sent a General to the
Trang-Jlissteriniii department, whose resources
were equal t o any emergency, and who could
not be dismayed by any (Twisters or difficulties.
The clear headed, the stout hearted, the gallant,
brave and indomitable Kirby Smith found him
self alone, in the department of the West,.cut
oil from the support and assistance of his gov
ernment. But by lbs own br Uiaut genius, and
invincible energy, aided by the patriotic corop
erution of the Governors of Arkansas, Louisiana
and Texas, and of their brave aud gallant peo
ple, has overcome the trying difficulties of ids
position, and in less than a year from the
fall of Vicksburg iiis noble army, led by such
Generals as Price, Taylor, Magruder—“names
that wore not born to die’ ’■—lias succeeded in
utterly discomfiting the abolition hosts, aud
driving them back, shattered and demoralized
to the Mississippi.
These glorious victories, t-ire news of which,
as it has come growing better and brighter
from beyond the Mississippi, has thrilled every
patriotic heart v. .ih joy, should teach our peo
ple an invaluable lesson—that they should
never despair, never give up—that no matter
what disasters may bcfal'tlicm, they can never
he subjugated, if luit true to themselves and
tlio great cause of Southern independence. The
glorious and successful resistance of the pico
p!e of the Trans-M ; ssissippi department to tire
armed hosts of despotism, under circumstances
oi' the most trying discouragement, is an ex -
ample that should not he lost upon us. While
we admire, we should emulate it. It should be
to u- a beacon light of encouragement under
any disasters, however great, which may lie
fail us, never to succumb, never to falter for a
moment in this sublime struggle for national
independence ; but to fight on and fight ever
until the last, armed foe shall be driven from
Southern soil.
Another Evil which Needs Looking into. —
The Richmond papers slate that while the Ad
ruiiußtration officials are impressing every
horse and mule in that section which belongs
to the citizens, that the quartermasters, com
missaries and others who hold not-liabie-to
military-duty offices, are allowed to keep
their line animals. In some instances ihese
gentlemen own quite a stud, for pleasure pur
poses. Bo.no people wonder where they get
their noble looking steeds. This is a matter
that should excite no surprise. The- adminis
tration takes all tao horses of the private citi
zen, and its officials take their pi; k cut of the
droves before they are sent to the army. Tnis
is one reason why our soft-handed men in high
places who do not receive a salary oveV two
thousand dollars per year, are enabled to drive
fast nags worth double that sum.
In another article we may perhaps tell the
public how these men are able to keep four or
five nags, at an expense of from ono to two
thousand dollars a year each, board at a hotel
at ten or twenty dollars a day, have large sums
I of money about their persons and in the bank,
buy up real estate, stocks, Ac., all opt of a sal
ary w hich does not exceed the sum mentioned
above. In these bard times, when the poor tax
payer is struggling to get a scanty living, a
j secret of this kind may be worth knowing.
Bat wo see wo have digressed somewhat
Irom tho subject we started to discuss. We beg
pardon of our readers for so doing. Tbo field
before us was so wide that we have wandered
a little. We will go back, and finish up the
original idea with a few concluding remarks.—
The evil spoken of isso flagrant aud unjust that
“even a blind man couid perceive it in the
dark.” It is a gross evil. It is an evil that
has been quietly submitted to long enough. It
is an evil which is. if we may so speak, an in
famous insult to pyery person who has had a
horse taken from hint. Officers should be al
lowed no ptivileges not enjoyed by citizens.—
We have had too much of ihese brainless “we
ate mightier than thou," because we bold a pet
ty position. It is time the people stood up for
their rights. An officer should only be permit
ted to keep what animals he needs for actual
service, and not one more. If the citizen is
not allowed a pleasure hoise, neither should
the official. “The servant is not greater than
his master.’’ If oar servants do not know this
Scriptural truth they should be taught it. —
This is said to be a Republican government.
We hope it will continue to be one. If it does
not. the citizens themselves will alone be at
fault. It is small evils which deprive pe.pie
of their right-. In a Republican government
the official should have no more rights than
those he serves. And we think it high time
that many evils which have crept in and fasten
ed themselves upon the body politic were cor
rected. If the administration will not see
that they are eradicated, the people should de
mand that they shall be.
ggTfce Albany Argus says Lincoln seems to find
friends nowhere ; the radicals are after hint ;
*o is Froemont; so are the Democrats ; so are
the Dutch : so is everybody save those holding
contracts or those expecting to get them.
ifI&EE DibCitioXsS ox tiie Tax Law.—We find
in the Mobile Advertiser, ihe folio viiig impor*
tnnl opinio* of the Coramissioner of Taxes, ap
proved ana adapted by the Secretary of the
ficasuiy, giving the construction the proper
department puts upon a portion of the act.
which considered ambiguous. The de
cision will l>e found of particular interest to
the meicantile community:
Oiuce of Commissioner op Taxes I
Richwoxd, April 2d, 18<>4. t
IL-n. C. O. Memmirujcr,
Secretary of (lit Treasury:
Sir—l have Hie honor to lay before veu a
letter from Mr. II -ary LiurnewaflWfee Tax Col
lator for the Mobile (Am.) District, and tocaii
year attention to a question raised by him; and
as the same question has been raised by others,
f would be glad to have it settled. The ques
tion is this:
“Are goods, wares aud merchandise, forming
the stock.in trade of dealers on 17th Feb uar j
“ en ; ij ■ t- •• ( J wloiviii tax oi 6 per
cent. imposed by Paragraph I, Section 1 of the
new act, and will they be valued accord
ing to the basis of 1 SCO. or according to what
-uch goods, wares. &c , were worth iu the same
market on 17ih Buy of February, 1800
It seems to me that the language used in
Bar. I is so comprehensive that it covers every
imsudnable thing that can be called property,
and shat every such imaginable thing is to be
assessed at its value iu 1860, or the value of
a similar thing in the same market, and a tax
of6 percent, is to be levied on that value.
There i- hovever. a saving clause in that para
iigrapb which excepts such property a; is after
wards exempted, and such as is taxed at a dif
ferent rate;.
1. Gold and silver wares, and plate, jewels,
&c., are taxed at a different rate, that is 10
per cent.
2. Where cotton, tobacco, land or slaves
have been purchased since Ist January, 1862,
they arc to he valued at the price paid by the
owner.
3. Shares, or interests in Banks, and other
corporations or companies, use taxed at the
rate of 5 per cent., but the basis of valuation
is different and this class of property talks
among the exceptions. Such shares must be
valued at their market price on date of act.
4. Coin, dust and bni 1 lon are (axed dift'er
entlv, being taxed on the amonut, riot value,
which necesistaies the payment of the tax in
kind. Moneys abroad, and bills drawn there
for, are also exceptions, and they are to be
taxed at their market'value whqre the tax is
due, in the prevailing currency, which is Con
federate notes.
5. Solvent credits, bank bills, &c., are to be
taxed on the amount, of their face, aud riiey
come within the exceptions, and those are
the last excepted. The words of the Ist
Paragiaph, Sec’ion 1, cover every species
of property not excepted, and ns goods, wa;es
and luerohnnd’se, with the exception of plate,
jewels. Ac.-, and cotton and tobacco purchased
since Ist January, 1862, are nowhere excepted
or exempted, it seems to m* that they are to be
assessed, valued and taxed under the Ist Para
graph, and at tho value of similar ji the* same
goods, waves and merchandise on 17th Februa
ry, 1861.
By section 7 new act, tho stock of goods
hold by a merchant on 17th February, having
paid the 5 per cent., the income of sucli mer
chant derived from the sale of those goods tills
year will be exempt from she tax imposed by
the act of 18(13 on such income for 1864.
But that merchant will be liable to the 10
per cent, income tax imposed by the new act.
He is not relieved from this by seclion 7, as
that section refers exclusively to the act of
1803.
Under the provisions of the new act, tlicmer
ebunt who bad already been taxed upon his
profits derived Piom purchase and sale during
the year 1803, is required to pay an additional
ten per cent on his said profits. Both these
income taxes are for 1863, though collected
this year. Now the mcrch -nt must pay a tax
?pou his property, including stock in trade,
&e.. for the year Idtll of-5 per cent., and in
January next instead ot making him pay the
two income taxes, that under act of 1863, as
well as the additional ten per cent, under the
new net, he will be exempted from the first,
because the tax of five per cent, on his prop
erty is deemed and held ns an equivalent by
section 7. • Therefore, in January, 1865, when
the Assessor calls up -n the recreant and ascer
tains his profits or taxable income in the usu
al manner, he will only assess it. with tbo ton
per cent, imposed by the new act.
2. Commercial brokers derive their income
from commissions charged upon sales made ex
clusively for others. They are, therefore, not
liable to the additional 10 per cent, income
tax imposed by Par. I, Sec. 4, new act. The
principals or owners of the goods sold are
liable for the profits, or the tax of ten per
cent, thereon, although the goods were sold by
their agent. The law intends to tax specula
tors. (.The principal, and not the agent, Is the
speculator.) The tax is on profils from buying
and selling. It is the business of commission
merchants principally to sell.
In many cases they sell what they did not
purchase for their principal—indeed, in most
cases —and it would be impossible for them to
make the return. Respectfully submitted,
(Signed,) T. Allan, Coianiissoner.
Approved. (Signed,) C. (I. M.
Another Regulation in Regard to Taxes.
—The following regulation in reference to
tilhes, when the articles subject have been re
ceipted for by quartermasters, commissaries,
or other persons, for the use of the army of
the Confederate Slates, has been issued by
Thompson Allan, Esq., Commissioner ofTaxes:
lut. In cases where the produce subject to
tax in kind has been taken and receipted for
by any Quartermaster or Commissaries serving
with the troops in the field, the receipt may hfi
allowed by the collector in settlement of the
•money value of the tax in kind.
2d. In cases whose such produce of the far
mer has been taken and receipted for by any
person belonging to the - army, riot a quarter
master or commissary, and p”od is made .of
the facts by the tax payer and su h other per
son or persons as ton have knowledge of the
facts and the character of the tax payer and
witnesses for truth and integrity established by
evidence, if the Collector is sa'.islied that the
produce has be n received and used by the
Confederate States army, the receipt may be
in like manner allowed.
‘ld. In cases where such produce ha3 been
taken by the Confederate States army, and no
receipt given upon proof, by affidav tof the
producer, and such other person or persons as
j may know the facts, with proof establishing
the character of the producer and witnesses for
truth and integrity, the amount so taken may,
in like manner, be allowed.
The .Progress Toward Nkg no Equality—
Negro Suffrage and Miscegsnatio.x in Lt»-
COLNDOM. —A Washington correspondent of the
Chicago “Times” traces the successive steps by
which the Administration party has advanced
from Abolition to Negro Equality, Negro vot
ing and Miscegenation. They are as»follows:
Ist. The emancipation of the slaves in the
District of Columbia. 2d. The Emancipation
Proclamation, in which Hr. Lincoln violated
the solemn pledges of his inaugural address.
! 3d. The unlawful expenditure of the public
I money in large amounts, in the establishment
j and support of negro schools. 4th. The adop
i tion of the policy of raising negro soldiers for
j the Union arui-es. sth. The practice of entic-
I ing able-bodied negro men to leave their com
' fu:table homes op the farms in Kentucky and
Maryland, in order to induce them to enlist.
6th. The practice of forcing the tame class of
negroes away, foi the game purpose. ”th Leg
islation by Congress Riving the negro soldiers
the same pay and'emoluments as white soldiers,
gib. The action of Congress in compelling the
1 street cats here to carry blacks, the same as
j white people, th. The efforts in Conegrss to
! confiscate all the Southern estates and confer
i them on negroes and Yankee adventurers in
discriminate!y. 10th. The effort in Congress
to give to negroes the same right to vote as is
enjoyed by white people,
Greeley ha? commenced telling butchering
tales over the Plymouth fight. He says after the
fort was taken me Confederates ordered out
the North Carolina troops, who formed part
of the garrison, and shot them : and that all
negroes found in uniform were murdered.
NEWS feUMHARY.
i Efforts are being made in Alabama to raise
funds for an orphan asylum lor the children of
j dead soldiers.
Dr. S..K. Cox. of Lowndesborough, Ala., has
obtained from the Patent office. Richmond, a
natont for tho making of a beautiful burning
(laid from tlie coal of Alabama, and also a pat
ent for the machinery by which the process is
carried out. The oil or fluid Hhis extracted
gives a clear aud beautiful light, quite equal
to the ordinary gas. A company has been
formed in Montgomery for the manufacture ot
the oil; the buildings necessary are being rap
idly constructed immediately iu the vicinity
of the coal bed; the retorts are in course of
construction at Selma.
Hon. 15. I*. Hill, Senator from Georgih, de
livered aspeecb last week at LtimpKin, Ga.. on
the condition of the country. A correspond
ent of the Columbus Sun says that he spoke
about -. wo heuis. flis discourse was interest
ing, rod toward tho conclusion, impressive.
He a- .ended and boasted upon the action and"
.m of the taxo Congress, iiis views upon
the suspension of t.ie privilege of habeas cor
pus were very unsatisfactory. He recommend
ed ably the same “peace policy,” in substance,
which is embodied in the Stephens resolutions’.
Os course he exhorted the people to a vigor
ous prosecution of the war.
Green peas are selling at the dollars per
quart in the Mobile markets.
The Charlotte Democrat has been placed in
possession of information in regard to the
cold-blooded murder by Yankees of Samuel
Armour, formerly a citizen of that county
but recently a resident of Tennessee. Mr. Ar
mour belonged to Gen. Forrest's command,
aud was*at borne on furlough when a parti- of
Yankee soldiers visited his house and captured
him. Alter carrying him to their camp a pris
oner, some tory present accused him of beiim
a bushwhacker, whereupon the Yankee officer!
without a court-martial or ’trial, ordered six
men to take him out and shoot him. The men
took Armour off a short distance and told him
lie might have a chance of saving his life by
running ; and as he started to run the brutal
viliaim shot him dead.
A mill on and a half of stork of the Virginia
Volunteer Navy stock has been taken.
T ie Mobile Advertiser says that one of For
rests men called upon a tailor in that city, a
few days since, to have a suit of clothes made
of materials from Paducah. He represents the
spoils of the expedition as immense, quite be
yond (he means to estimate. At the different
points successfully attained, vast stories were
touud, and horses and mules in large numbers
T his being the case, every vehicle, of whatever
description, was harnessed and loaded, and only
such of the plunder destroyed as it was impos
sible to bring away. Ot jeans alone, at Padu
cah, they took as much as to load completely a
leng train of wagons. There must, ho says have
been enough to clothe all of Gen. Johnston’s
army. The Yankee story of 5,000 horses and
1.000 wagons brought off, may be less ofau ex
aggeration than wo think.
Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, Jr., a son of ex
,Senator Iverson, of Columbus, has been as
signed to the command of a cavalry brigade
in Hardee’s Corps. The brigade is composed
of the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th and (ith Georgia cavahy
regiments.
The prospect of a wheat crop in the central
Alabama is wry promising.
The line steamer Mail, belonging to Messrs.
Jamenex, Sokrino &Cos., of Havana, engaged iu
running the blockade, was captured oue day
during the latter part of last week by a party
of deserters. It seems the Mail had eluded
the vigilance of the blockading squadron, and
was proceeding up the Osteena Hatchie River,
in the Southern portion ot Florida, when she
was captured, the was laden with a valuable
cargo lor Government anti on private account.
A Yankee schooner was blown up in York
river, a few days since by a torpedo.
Gen. Fitz Lee bus adopted the plan of pub
licly commending in general orders, to be read
on dress parades, the exploits of his men, that
emulation may be excited with the Happiest
effect.
The citizens of Mobile are getting up a testi
monial of their appreciation of Gen. Forrest,
in the shape of a field battery, consisting of
two Travis guns, which are light, easily trans
ported, fired with great, rapidity and accuracy,
and for the cavalry service, a most valuable
we ipon. One of the guns has been finished
and the other is under way.
A horrible murder was perpetrated at Alba
ny, Ga,, a few days since. A man named
O'Brien was found dead, terribly butchered,
about two miles from Albany. A man named
Taylor is suspected of the crime, and is now in
custody. A lady with whom tb’s same Taylor was
intimate, has since been iound dead, and
buried in a standing position in a wheat field
close by the city. Taylor is suspected of the
double murder.
The wheat and corn crop in the vicinity of
Chambers Al-i., look well.
A severe hail storm visited LaGrange, Ga.,
April 18th. Most of the hail was larger than
partridge egirs. Glass was broken, and gar
dens and fruit trees damaged.
The large gang of negroes recently employ
ed beyond Girard, Ala., in throwing up fortifi
cations, have been withdrawn and sent where
such work is likely to.be a little more needed
than at that point.
Pyroligneous acid is now manufactured at
the powder works in Columbia in sufficient
quantities to supply the wants of the entire
Confederacy.
A meeting of Tennesseeans, for the purpose
of organizing a relief committee for Die benefit
of Tennessee troops who may be wounded in
the approaching battle, was held in Atlanta on
Friday last. A committee was appointed, and
upwards of $24,000 promptly subscribed to
carry out the bentficeut design.
The battlefield relief association has been
formed at Marietta, Ga., and an efficient relief
corps-appointed, who, after every battle, will
at once report to our armies with nurses, sur
geons and supplies, to administer to the wants
of the sick aud wounded.
Virginia army letter writers think Grant's
army will not advance before ten days.
A cot respondent of the Mobile Tribune,
writing from Pollard, says, one of the most
hopeful signs ot the times may be found in the
fact that our money can be exchanged for gold
in Nashville or Memphis for a lower premium
than it can be in Mobile or Richmond; showing
conclusively that our friends within the ene
my’s lines, and who have the best opportuni
ties of acquainting themselves with (lie situa
tion and resources of the “universal Yankee,’’
have the most unshaken confidence in our final
success. But these hopeful signs must not
cause us to relax a single muscle. All our
strength and resources should be carefully hus
banded, and every salient point watched with
Argus eyes and guarded with unsleeping vigi
lance.
Decaturvtlle, Tennessee, the scene of the late
reported battle of Gen. Forrest with Grierson,
is the county seat of Decatur county. It is
about sixty miles from Jackson, and seventy
fiom Columbia, and eight or ten from the Ten
nessee river.
The knitting factorv of J. Judge & Cos., of
Columbia, S. C., turns' out 2,500 to 3,000 pairs
of sofiks pur day. Seventy hands are employed
in the faotory, and some five or six hundred at
their c.vn houses in finishing them alter the
knitting i-; done.
The venerable Judge Monroe, of Kentucky,
is at present at Columbus. Ga.
Howe thieves are committing great depreda
tions in the mountain districts of South Caro
lina.
The Macon Telegraph learns that the Cen
tral Railroad lost but fifteen cars at the late fire
in Wilmington.
At last accounts there were only three regi
ments left in garrison at New Orleans- L a
demonstration could be made on that city
Ranks would have to return to 'protect it, and
Gen. Dick Taylor would be at liberty to dis
pose of Gen. Steele, and thus recover Arkan
sas as well as Louisiana, West of the Missis
sippi-
The steamer General Moultrie, belonging to
the Palmetto Importing and Exporting Com
pany, has, we learn from the Nassau papers,
been sold. She is to be used as a dredge boat
for the harbor of Nassau.
The steamer Rothsay Castle, Captain Lovett,
we learn has safely arrived at a Confederate
port.
VOL, LXXVIII. —NEW SERIES VOL. xx\-ji« V /,
' A-J-. x) Vt it".
From Kentucky.
[special corresfoxdexce chronicle a sentinel.]
Hodges Brigade on the March—Severe Weather
Reported fight at Lexington,. Rij—Capture
of Col. Monday and J fen—Emancipation ques
tion ii Kentucky— Wolford dismsised the Van
fee service, and organizing a Guerilla Band to
fight the Federals—Opposition to Lincoln's Con
scription Act—A Yankee raid in Preparation
Our present Status —. 4 noble specimen es a
Soldier, Ac, Ac.
Headquarters 7thßatt. Cox led. Cav. )
Castle’s Woods, Russell Cos, Va. ,
, Alum 22, 1804. )
We have just arrived from Kentucky, with
the Brigade, most of us worn out and much
fatigued. For the last eight days, snow, rain
and hail have fallen iu great abundance, and
die winds have blown colder than we have feit
m the depth of winter. We have ail been ex-
P° s# d to this weather,and have subsisted on very
short rations, but very little complaining lus
been heard, from those who are able to stand
up, while some thirty of our men have been j
taken down sick witli fever. Taking all things
into consideration the soldiers are in much bet
ter condition than we anticipated they would
be when we arrived here.
The Brigade came out of Kentucky on the
20th inst. We left Kentucky river and went
over on Poor Fork of Cumberland River, and
camped about twenty miles from Harlan Court
House. At this Court House there were about
seven hundred Yankees encamped. They were
placed there to watch us, but the weather pre
vented us from going to see them.
While in that section of Kautucky we cap
tured a Yankee soldiei belonging to the Forty
seventh (Ivy-.) Infantry Regiment. He int'cim
ed us that Col. Mark Munday had recently bad
a tight at Lexington with two regiments—a
Michigan and Pennsylvania ; that the fight
commenced about 2 o'clock in the afternoon,
and that it continued until night, when the
Abolitionists were defeated with a loss of some
fifty killed and wounded.
The next morning the enemy brought a brig
ade against him aud surrounded his Regiment,
and after a short fight took him and his men
prisoners. Col. Munday was sent off in irons
to some prison, and his men sent away, after
being disarmed, to work on fortifications.
This difficulty arose-from the emancipation
question now being discussed in that State.
All the Kentucky troops in the Northern aimy
have been taken out of the State, with the ex
ception of about six hundred at Louisa—moun
tain men, who care nothing about the emanci
pation question. The Yankee soldier whom
we captured, asserted, however, that Kentucky
was full of deserters, v* ho are Kentuckians.
He also says that Gen. Wolford has been
dishonorably discharged from the Yankee
army and was now raising a Brigade to tight
them on his own hook as a guerrilla. The
people of Kentucky have determined that
Lincoln shall not carry out his conscript act
in that State, and we believe they will fight
before they will submit to it.
Since our anival here Col. Johnson has re
ceived a dispatch from our friends in the inte
rior of Kentucky, that a body of ten thousand
cavalry arc at Lexington and Mt. Sterling pre
pa! ing ten days rations for the purpose of
making a raid into this section of Virginia.
This expedition will he under the command
of Gen. Stoneman, aud Gen. Sturgis. We sup
pose they will have about six or seven thous
and men when they start, and about four
when they get near the mountains, and those
that come wilt he stoned to death as certain as
fate. We are prepared to give these fellows a
warm reception, and we will not give them
time to repent a visit to Dixie. It is supposed
they will move this way about the same time
that Grant attacks Gen. Lee before Richmond.
The confidence of our soldiers in our suc
cess this year was never stronger than at pres
ent, and they believe that this is the last year
of the war.
We know but little ,as to the condition of
affairs in this military Department—in fact we
don't desire to know—and if we did, we would
not impart any information at this critical
moment. Enoufh is told, when we say that
we are able to meet the enemy and resist him
at any point he may attack us.
The confidence in the success and triumph
of Gen. Lee over Gen. Grant, in the next great
last battle, gives us hope that we may all be
able to reach home in a few months.
Yesterday Lieut. Martin Bates reported in
camp for duty. lie is the largest and heaviest
man iu the Confederate army, and is a Ken
tuckian. He is seven feet and one inch fall,
and weighs three hundred and ninety pounds.
His feet measure thirteen inches in length.—
A giant of his size cannot be found every day.
Lieut. Bates is in good health and attends to
camp duties as other good soldiers do. lie be
longs to the 7th Battalion Confederate Cav
alry.
The weather is pleasant and spring like to
day, and that we may have mere of it is the
prayer of
Sous Lieutenant.
’’’The Fort Pillow Aitjir.—Some of the
Northern papers appear to think that the Fort
Pillow affair was not such a horrid matter after
all; and that the account heretofore received
by them of the “massacre,” “butchery,” &c.,
are the fruits of abolition invention, and told
with the hope of inciting Lincon to retaliation,
as be has threatened. Take, lor instance, the
following extract from a private letter pub
lished in the New York Journal of Commerce,
and maik the difference between this and the
other accounts put forth by the Lineolnite
press. The Journal of Commerce says this is
“a rational and probably a very correct account
of the affair:”
The storming of Fort Pillow was a serious
affair. I conversed with an intelligent Irish
man who came up on the steamer that brought
mauy of our wounded men to Cairo. lie tells
me that our officers placed their negro soldiers
in front of the whites. They immediately ran
away, and the whites surrendered as goon as
the rebels entered the fort, calling on the no-'
groes to do the same, but they not understand
ing matters, and being afraid of falling into
the hands of the rebels, ran away with their
arms and occasionally fired on the pursuers.
But all who s mendered, whether white or
black, were protected as soon as' the melee of
the assault was over. A few negro women
and children were killed in the fort, and some
of the negroes were pursued down to the edge
of the river and killed before the rebel officers
could control their men.
The demoralization of the white and terror
of black soldiers was excessive. The negroes
do not know enough to give up, and their offi
cers lost all control over them. The passion
and rage of the rebels were ungovernable at
meeting the negroes in arms.
After the surrender the rebel officers, with a
few exceptions, did what they could to control
their men. It was worse than folly to attempt
a defence with negro-troops, unless there was a
certainty ot success. They could expect nothing
if the defence failed from the rebels, who en
tering the fort sword in hand, would probably
refuse quarter, which I am informed the laws
of war permit in cases where a place is taken
by assault.
Wat the North has Gained From Lin
colx.—The Albany Argus in speaking of the
benefits the North has dcrieved from Lincoln’ B
rule, comments thus :
What has the nation gained by placing the
friend of Abolition in powei? A divided Union;
a debt that weighs us down; the destruction of
a million of able-bodied men ; calls for more
every three months of the year; a policy that
keeps every town at work in the most earnest
ivay to find its “last man” and “last dollar,”
and the towns are fast approaching that point.
What have we gained? Mourning all ever the
land; a calamity such as the world has never
witnessed. What shall we gaits by keeping
those men in power? Utter, irretrievable ruin!
A man traveled ail the way from Clarksville,
Team, to Granada, Miss., to fund $35,550 of
Confederate money, but imagine his horror
when the Cashier threw out $?4,710 of it ns
1 counterfeit!
FOIIEIGV GOsSIK.
It appears to be now dearly understood that
(be two great Powers of Germany arc, though
not actually divided, yet inclined to take op
posite views with regard to the integrity cf
Denmark. The London Index comments thus
on tiie subject:
Austria is still anxious to rest on tho treaties
of Lteil-2; Prussia,on the contrary, wishes to
set those treaties at nought. Unfortunately,
the latter Power has been up to this time the
more success)ul in carrying out its views, 'flic
Danish officials, most local, have been
dismissed without compensation of auv sort:
the Danish currency has been prohibited, and
declared to lie no it gal tender on :nul after tlio
Ist of April next, A decent opposition lm»
certainly been made to the pretensions of tiie
Duke ot Augustenburg, but ’the general and
persistent course of action lias tended to the
“Germanizition’ ot the Duchies: such pro
ceedings, however, are. peculiarly UDgrateful
to the Austrians, and a Vienna journal has de
clared, in very precise language, that it is im
possible for them with one hand to hold Yeuc
tia by the right oi a treaty, and with the other
to grasp at the Duchies by tho light of na
tionality.
The French papers publish an article fron*
the Opinion Nationale, of Paris, which includes
official documents, and proves that the French
Government is quittly conniving at the efforts
of the rebel agents lo have iron clad war vcs.
sels built in France for the rebel service. From
recitations of the Opinion, it appears that
Firras at Nantes and Bordeaux have been for
months at work building war vessels, ostensi
bly lor China, but really for the rebels. Mr
Dayton last fall laid before the French Govern
ment proofs of the real destination of the ves
sels; and after much delay, the work wan stop
ped by government orders. But during the
last two mouths, as the Opinion declares, that
work has been resumed, and two of the vessels
are now ready to bo passed over to the rebel
agents. Lieut. Maury and Captain Bullock
have been prominent in these negotiations.
’i hese vessels art; iron-clad, and the rebel au
thorities have ordered an entire fleet, which
the government of Napoleon 111, seems willing
tx> have built at French ports, in spite of its re
iterated desire to maintain a strict neutrality.
The Peace Society of Loudon has presented
a memorial to the Emperor of the French,
congratulating his Majesty on tiie proposal for j
a Congress, and the substitution of the arbi
tration of reason for that of the sword. An
nexed is the reply of the Emperor :
“Sir—Your committee, in the address which
it has forwarded to me, congratulates me on
having proposed a European Congress. The ex
pression of its tentimerits touches me alt the
more, because your society, occupying itself
within tho means of maintaining the general
peace, is on that very account better able to
appreciate eostant solicitude for the attainment ;
ot' that end.
“Will you be my interpreter to your honor
able colleagues, and offer them my sincere
thanks ?
“Believe me, sir, with all sentiments, Re.,
“Napoleon.”
A Paris correspondent of the New York
Times, under date of March 2‘J, gives the fol
lowing information of certain iron-clads said to
be building in France for the Confederacy, and
the movements of the Confederate L learner
Georgia ;
One Qf the vessels built at Bordeaux by M.
Arman, Deputy in the Corps Legislatif, for tho
Confederate Government, was lonm-hed mi
Thursday last, and shows liersell on the water
to be a moat beautiful specimen of naval archi
tecture. An English vessel is lying iu the same
port with all the necessary equipments on
board for the new vessel, the articles having
been put on board the English vessel at Havre.
The new vessel will no: be ready to sail yet for
some weeks, and she is audaciously announced
in advertisements as being “up” for (Shanghai.
M. Anna", however, has been compelled by the
French Government to give his word that none
of tho vessels he is building shall pass from his
into Confederate hands, or, in a general way,
that no trouble shall come to the Government
from these vessels, It is on Compromise of M."
Arman that the I 1 tench and American Govern
ments rely, and on which permission is granted
for the continuance of the work on them. The
two iroil-cladi will not be ready for launching
yet for three months, but the other three wood
en vessels will soon follow their consorts into
the water. It is feared that by some indirect,
means these vessels may liuaiiy pass into Con
federate-hands.
The Georgia, which left the French port of
Cherburg over a month ago, Ins just put into
the port of Bordeaux, and on Saturday the offi
cers of this vessel visited the newly launched
Confederate ship. It is y&t unexplained why
the Georgia was allowed to re-enter a French
port, contrary to the new regulation requiting
an interval of three months to elapse between
each entry, but 1 believe this new regulation
makes an exccp ion to the three months’ rule in
favor of coaling, but for this purpose only
twenty-four hours aie allowed, and the Georgia
seems to be making more than a twenty-tour
hours stay at Bordeaux.
The distance from Bordeaux to the sea is
seventy miles, and the occasion seemed so good
a one to entrap the Georgia that the American
Minister at Paris immeuiately telegraphed Capt.
Winslow of file fact, and the Kearsage, which
lately has been stationed in the channel, lias by
this time probably arrived off'the mouth of the
Gironde. The twenty-four hours’ start will be
here allowed, of course to tire Georgia, but the
exit from the river is narrow in comparison to
other harbors, and it is easier to keep informed
of the movements of the blockaded vessel in a
liver than in an open bay.
The French Government finding that there
was an intention on the port of tho Confeder
ates to run the Rappahannock out of the port
of Calais, and to go to sea, as they did at Sheer
ness, with French leave, have inclosed the ves
sel in a dock, and placed a man-of-war in front
of it.
The London correspondent of the Phila
delphia Inquirer gossips with much spice over
matters as they exist in England thus:
Undoubtedly the most imporant occurrence
this week has been the delivery of the decision
ffl the House of Louis in the Alexandra case.
Its importance, however, does not lie in any ef
fect it may have upou the relations of this
country with the United Slates, lor those rela
tions are in no way affected by it. ' < n° lay as
we are concerned, this Government has done
everything in its power to bring the case to a
proper issue, and we can have no ground of
complaint against them. The decision of the
House iof Lords was entirely upon technical
matters. The merits of the enigma, case were
not involved in the slightest degree. Ine re
sult. however, is, that the Government stands
beaten, and is coin pel led to pay the entire costs
of the prosecution. The Lairds come off w.th
living colors, and they and their friends are
in high glee. It is understood that they will
claim enormous damages for the loss they have
sustained by detention, &c.; and, as they will
be careful to bring their case in Clitef Laron
Pollock’s Court they will probably obtain a
verdict from which there can be bo appeal.
The Marquis of Ciunricade, in the House
of Lords, attempted lately a sort of trick by
using in his resolution cer twin language that
would imply a recognition by the House of
Lords of the separate existence as a nation of
the Confederate States but Earl Russell prompt
ly detected aud exploded the trick by insisting
on tho Confederate States being mentioned in
the resolutions as lire “so called Confederate
States.
The existence of the British Ministry, just
now is held by a very precarious tenure. In
deed. I do not hear any prophesy that it will
laat more than a fortnight longer. It is now
conceded that the opposition will not await the
slow process of its natural death, but that
they are determined to put a speedy end to its
existence, if they can possibly do so. Lord
Palmerston may possibly, by making other
sacrifices, manage to tide over the present
crisis, but just now it looks as though the an
nouncement of a dissolution might take place
at any moment.
The Times has published a double leaded
editorial, evidently emanating from Cambridge
House, intimating in plain terms that the
whims of the Queen were to be respected, aud
almost abusing her subjects for presuming to
men’t. that * he dlOUld emerge frOIU h,r re ir °-
Tue arrival of Garibaldi in London has been
postponed until next Monday, v , h. u lv be
comes liie guest Ol l tie Duke of teicrhmd tic
Stafford House. Whatever demonstrations
are to be ma.’e will be ioi >ly o i ih e part ot
the people. The GovelfWient has churlishly
refused to entertain any suggv; t'.outhat woabi
seem to :: “nit of the implication ’hat the great
Italian vvs regarded by them tei my other
light Hun iu;.i «f an adrenic.: r, and takes pat
titular care, by its act"-, to iruckle to the Em
peror of ihe crouch. by throwing cold water
on everything in the nature of a public de
monstration. It is very possible tiiat this
course is very prudent rind politic; for no ona
doubts that, Garibaldi’s vi it to England has a
purpose beyond the mere desire of paying a so
cial vis't to hi.-, numerous friends In this coun
try. France, it. is well known, looks with siis
ion upon it and | .st now it is i.-e desire of
the English Government to stand well with
France. For all this, Garibaldi is the lion of
Ihe day.
A lnei'tu'y gourie.uan, who has fff ; t ';
of his line in Pat Is, furnishes the New, York
World with the following gossip in regard to
the recognition of the Confederacy by Empe
ror Napoleon :
The Emperor believes that the political and
commercial advantages which ho will derive
from an acknowledgment of the indepcndencu
of the South, and from an alliance with tho
“Southern Confederacy,” requite him to take
those steps, and h; will take them. He requires
the recognition of tho empire in Mexico under
Maximilian, bolli by the North and South,
flic South, through Mr. Slidell, promised this
readily enough, as part of tho price she was to
pay for her recognition. But the eagerness of
Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward in consenting to
recognize the establishment of a monarchy in
Mexico, on condition that lie would remain
neutral between the North and South, surpris
ed and rather bewildered the Emperor Napole
on. lie had been ted to expect that our gov
ernment would make seme attempt, at least,
to maintain the Monroe doctrine ; and lie is
amazed to see that doctrine so tamely given
up ; for it is literally true that Mr. Dayton, in
obedience to instructions from Washington,
communicated to the Fiencb mini-ter for for
eign affa is the readiness ot our government
to recognize the Emperor Maximilian as soon
as he should arcen i the Mexican throne.—
I fhis action on (lie part of the adminis ration,
l however, will not change the determination of
the Emperor. An 1 it is the opinion of my
informant that neither will the recent action
of the House of Representatives be seized up
on by Napoleon us a pretext for a rupture
with tbe North, because t o resolution passed
f>7 that body is so meek aud mild in its tone ;
and because Ihe action of the House does
not, and iias no power to, commit the admin
istration to any course whatever.
Ollfi Cl FIIIC l\ WILMINGTON, H C.
On Friday, April 29, at 20 minutes to I
o’clock, f a fire broke oul in a warehouse or shed
on the Western side of the Cape Fear River,
Wilmington, some 200 feet Sout i of the Ferry,
which is opposite to the Market Dock.
From ihis point it spread with amazing ra
pidity, and in an inconceivably short space of
time every building on the western side of tho
river south of the depot of the Wilmington &
Manchester Railroad was enveloped in llames.
The destruction of property is very great.—
We sum it up as nearly as wo can ns follows :
The Cos ifederate Government lost 800 bales
liotton burnt, ol which about 200 were Sea Isl
and—say SBOO,OOO. It lost also in materials
ami work in progress at Berry’s Ship Yard
about SIOO,OOO.
r r i■- ■’l >, l 2 .TOO of cotton-—3OO o£
it Sea Inland -say $2,430,000.
1 The Nashville & Chattanooga R. R. Cos. lost
187 bales; J. W. Thomas 37 hales-say S2OO -
000.
Iu Capt. Halletfs Sheds there were 850 bales
of coltori, 47 of it Sea Island, belonging to the
Slate of Virginia, and sundry other parties.
Also rope and begging to the amount of SIOO,-
000. AH burned. To.al loss about $900,000.
R inkin and Martin’s Rosin Oil Works, about
$70,000 insurance lo the amount of $7,000.
11. pallet’s loss in shed about $25,000. lusu
otfice $3,000.
‘V/Tfio Southern Express Company lost two cars
with merchandize, also some merchandize >l a
small ware house. Loss about SIOO,OOO.
John A. Taylor, shed, etc., at Ferry, $lO,-
001).
Th3 and inline to the machinery and tools at
B. W. & W. L. Berry’s ship-yard is compara
tively light. Most of the workmen’s tools
were saved. They expect to be able to resume
work in about three weeks. The sheds and
saw mill machinery in rear of ship-yard is the
principal loss. Estimated totil $25,000.
The’Wilmington & Manchester Railroad Com
pany lost the small wooden building in which
the President, Ti e'surer and Superintendent
had their offices. All Ihe contents were saved.
The building was of little value. The chief
loss of railroad prop; rty was 25 freight cars,
15 of them belonging to the Georgia Central
Road, 8 to the Wilmington and Manchester
Road, and 2 to the Southern Express Company.
Total loss in cars $150,000.
Thus far we. have a summing up of about
four million eight hundred thousand dollars,
but ihi;i does not include the iujury of a quar
ter of a mile of wharling, mainly ruined, nor
the loss of the sheds and buildings belonging
to the Confederate government and to other
parties, nor the injury to the cotton press.
These and other things not' necessary to men
tion oan hardly be estimated for at the present
time sin. -e it may lie impossible to replace them
and difficult to do without them. We are hap
py, indeed, to learn that the cotton press itself
is expected to he in operation egaiu in a short
time. It is probable that whcnJiSe whole loss
is known, and the wharves, etc.,
have been included, the v. lmc loss will tall
little if anything short of six millions of dol
lars.
The usual doubts are expressed a3 to whether
this tremendous fire was accidental or the re
sult of incendiarism. It may have been either.
We have not been able to disc >ver_ anything
that will warrant us in saying that it war', the
one or the other, it we except the astonishing
rapidity of its spread, which, does look as
though it were too rapid to be merely acciden
tal. aud gives rise to suspicions of foul play,
although, indeed, the combustibility of all the
materials the fire had to work upon could hard
ly be in crea ed. — Journal.
Patriotic Resolutions. —The following res
olutions were unanimously adopted by the
Soldiers’ Relief Association, at Nownan, Ga.,
at a recent meeting :
Resolved, That this association, in its ex
penditures of money, while it realizes and rec
ognizes the fact that a tax of 33J per cent, lias
been levied on, and now attaches to the money
held by the association, will claim that the in
trinsic value of tho money has not been di
minished thereby.
Resolved, That this association, in jts out
lays of money, will not in any evq u t submit to
the increased per cent, additional profit which
sharp extortioners havi- made the late currency
bill the excuse for adding to their goods.
Res lived, T hat the class of men who made
the late legislation of the country for the reduc
tion of the circulation an excuse for increased
profits in their sales, have inflicted upon tho
country a blow- whose evil fruits are too ap
parent not to he seen and known.
R solved, That in no case except of absolute
necessity, will we as citizens encourage ex
tortionists who defy the Jaw by advancing
prices so as to make others pay their taxes.
Who Proclaimed the War.— The New York
Times, an accredited leading Republican pa
per, and the special organ in New York of the
Administration, in its Issue of tho Gth March,
IBC4, in an editorial taking issue with Thad
deus Stevens for stating that tho rebel States
are beligerents and “that they are no longer
in the Union,” writes this down as a fact that
cannot be gainsayed:
“The Confederacy wanted peace, and sent
Commissioners to Wash;n t m to receive it.
We w#u!d not receive them, and proclaim'd
war! They accepted war. Tre question wio
tired the first gun i9 nothir g.
A correspondent of the St. Loins Republi
can says the Yankt e; will * ave to m ike Alex
aniria their base of operations in Louisiana,